Love, Light and Kisses

[m31andy]

Because I have a stinking cold and am tired and crabby. Be nice to me...

the ❝that's my favourite!❞ meme
A FANFICTION PRAISE MEME

In other news, my fabulous beta has turned around my big bang fic in less than twenty-four hours. Some stuff to do, but I'm feeling a lot more confident about it now! Still need to write the epilogue though...

I'm still delicious tagging the crack_van Pros Recs (No, I've not forgotten about them!) 156 down, 50 to go. *sigh* I should get them done before it's my turn to drive the LoM Cortina next month. I hope.

C is being a complete stalwart and bringing me tea, even though she's not feeling too good either. I love you, honey.

Comments

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

The crack_van memories have been disused for a while now - I think they hit their limit. I know I was on the working party to ensure that the new (as it was then) tagging function was applied to every prior fanfic. Therefore you can get the previous recs for a fandom by clicking on the appropriate tag. viz.

What I'm doing at the moment is the same thing that mikes_grrl did for Life on Mars a while ago. I've set up a delicious account for The Professionals Crack Van Recs, which enables a would-be-reccer to check through to make sure that their intended rec has not been done before without all that tedious scrolling. At the moment it's searchable by author, reccer, month, pairing, rating and crossover. I might add more if need be. It's a little more powerful than the tag function alone because of the enhanced searching. Hopefully it will be useful for crack_van reccers!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

... Not by title? Sometimes the title is all I remember although of course I could look up the title, get the author and then check it against the list, ignore me. *g*

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Tags are really there to group things - you'd expect more than one entry under each tag. However, you can search the tags and you can list them alphabetically and find the rec (or not) that way.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I had a bit of a d'oh moment right after I'd typed this, sorry. *g* I've had so much caffeine and sugar the old braincells aren't firing properly.

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's neat!

I'll add the account URL to my list of recs.

Great work!

Would you like me to send an announcement to Proslib, mentioning that future reccers would be very welcome? It might possibly flush out a few who aren't currently following LJ.

If so, would you send me the sign-up details to include (or whatever's appropriate) please?

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Pardon me for interrupting. Having got approved for permanent reccing status again we'll start in September, one poster per month. Right now we have seven signed up I think so allowing for the fact that crack_van is given over to one-off vans in December we have enough drivers through next April so I don't know if you'd want to post about it now or wait a few months.

When the reccing starts in September I'll make another post about it, urging people to sign-up and of course mentioning Andy's lovely and very useful delicious list as the crack_van asks that you don't repeat the same recs if you can help it.

Of course any Pros fan is welcome to sign-up to drive and please do spread the word, but they would probably want to know that to do so they would have to have a livejournal account *and* become a member of crack_van in order to drive.

sign-up sheet is here.

ETA: Hmmm... Every rec I've seen on crack_van was for stories available online but I'm not sure if that's an actual requirement or just standard practice. Andy might know. I've driven the van a couple of times but for Life on Mars and all of that fandom's fiction is online so I'm just not sure.